Interviews, News, and Analysis for WordPress Professionals. This podcast includes interviews, conversations, opinions, and analysis from Post Status for the WordPress and web community.
“A crisis can either build you or break you.” In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David and Cory reflect on a tough question: What can help WordPress professionals weather the storm of being an entrepreneur in challenging times? Cory shares four types of people who can offer support in their own unique ways: spouses,…
New hires to Post Status and an acqui-hire for Automattic. In this episode, David and Cory talk about recent news from all corners of the WordPress community. First, they share how they will miss Andrea Middleton — who is taking a great new opportunity at Reddit after 10 years of full-time work on the WordPress…
We Can Be Organized In How We Multitask. In this episode, David and Cory have a conversation about another way to prevent Developer Overload: organization. Cory shares how he benefited from a mentor, while David feels that documentation, commenting code, and following some best practices can help reduce anxiety overall — if you can convince…
Avoiding ego, reinventing the wheel, and shiny objects. In this episode, David and Cory discuss Developer Overload, which David defines as what happens when “when you receive too much information and are unable to process it, resulting in negative responses and unhealthy effects.” David shares tips on how developers can focus on what to pay…
Allowing time to goof off or pursuing a passion improves team connections. Professor Jane Dutton from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business suggests “four ways to build high-quality workplace connections” — respectful engagement, support, trust — and play. Play is what Cory and David focus on in this episode — why should companies…
The first step to getting started might not be technical. As new people come into Post Status looking for some guidance, there is a tendency among old hands to say things used to be much easier. Although it was a simpler time ten years ago, getting started in WordPress development presented challenges to new developers…
Many plugins in the WordPress.org repository have shown a significant drop in active install growth this year. In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset and Cory Miller focus on a blog post David published on July 23rd on Post Status entitled “Is The Growth Of Active Installs of WordPress Plugins Declining in 2021?”…
Many plugins in the WordPress.org repository have shown a significant drop in active install growth this year. In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset and Cory Miller focus on a blog post David published on July 23rd on Post Status entitled “Is The Growth Of Active Installs of WordPress Plugins Declining in 2021?”…
Acquisitions in the WordPress space, WordPress 5.8, WordFest Live, Elementor is 5, and #ClickPublish In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset and Cory Miller chat about how the new Post Status Acquisition Tracker is a window into significant moments and trends in WordPress history. With WordPress 5.8 released this week, it will be…
“Understanding who you are and who you are not goes a long way.” In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset talks with Syed Balkhi about the acquisition of SearchWP by Awesome Motive. We get a little behind-the-scenes information about how this deal came to be. Syed shares his thoughts on how SearchWP fits…
“I realized that I wanted [SearchWP] to be long term and stable…it deserved a team behind it.” In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset talks with Jon Christopher about his sale of SearchWP to Awesome Motive. The two talk about what motivated Jon — the sole developer (and marketer) of SearchWP — to…
Castos is a WordPress-powered podcast hosting provider with roots in the open-source community through their Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin for WordPress. They recently announced a $756K pre-seed funding round from a number of companies, including Automattic and Yoast SEO. Cory Miller sat down with Castos CEO Craig Hewitt to talk about this move and how…
Castos is a WordPress-powered podcast hosting provider with roots in the open-source community through their Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin for WordPress. They recently announced a $756K pre-seed funding round from a number of companies, including Automattic and Yoast SEO. Cory Miller sat down with Castos CEO Craig Hewitt to talk about this move and how…
Take 10% of your time, energy, and even money and start investing it systematically in a “Next Chapter” project. In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset and Cory Miller talk about how to build a “career raft” for yourself — something Cory wishes he did when he sold iThemes and went looking for…
$635.5 billion by the end of 2021? In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Cory Miller and David Bisset briefly touch on two more acquisitions this week — one involving Extendify and another by Automattic. Cory and David review some highlights from WP Engine‘s recent report on the WordPress economy. WP Engine estimates the WordPress…
